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Thread: gas strutts on defender bonnet? yes i have!

  1. 21st February 2007, 03:20 PM #1
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    gas strutts on defender bonnet? yes i have!

    took about 3months to think about doing this job and 30min to actually fit it

    usuall story had some strutts sitting around and some alloy angle, next thing ya know presto!

    cheers phil


    just have to tidy up the edges on the brackets.
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  2. 21st February 2007, 03:43 PM #2
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    great, can you post a pic of the bottom mount??
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    the strutt's i use have a ball joint on the end. had to drill one 5/16 hole in the inside of the wing top. only on the pass side there is a hole in the drivers side thats got a clip in it for the radiator over flow pipe bracket.



    cheers phil.

    ps. one strutt will do the job but it must be around 300nm. the two i use are 150nm's each. i had bigger ones but they were to long
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  4. 22nd February 2007, 08:18 AM #4
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    Thats a great idea... What length are the struts that you used?
    I might have to do somthing like that myself.

    Thanks

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  5. 22nd February 2007, 08:31 AM #5
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    Good stuff and well done!

    I'd like to do that to the Disco.

    GQ
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  6. 22nd February 2007, 10:39 AM #6
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    You've now hexed yourself by planning to have the bonnet up so much.
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  7. 22nd February 2007, 02:59 PM #7
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    You've now hexed yourself by planning to have the bonnet up so much.
    no its just that if it dose happen it happens in STYLE

    lengths are 600 open and 480 closed. 150Nm each strutt.

    cheers phil
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  8. 22nd February 2007, 03:00 PM #8
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    Thats a great idea...
    yep but it wasnt mine
    i read alot of mag's.

    cheers phil
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  9. 22nd February 2007, 03:31 PM #9
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    My bonnet is up right now - waiting for some p/steering juice - funny about that! Yep its leaking again...............

    GQ
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    no its just that if it dose happen it happens in STYLE
    Let's workshop this for a minute.

    You HAVE hexed yourself, but for the sake of the argument let's just think you've been extremely unlucky. Scenario is:

    1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

    2) Fender is now known as "flunking piece of schnitt car".

    Now, if we're doing this in style.

    1) Schtuffed oozidoobit has stopped forward progress.

    2) Fender is now known as "flunking stylish piece of schnitt car".

    So there we have it. For the extra pfffft struts instead of a poo, you have a poo with sunglasses.

    Was it worth the extra?

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